Matthew Frye Jacobson

Associate Professor of American Studies and History Matthew Frye Jacobson

In the 1970s, white ethnics mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants making their way in the New World through the sweat of their brow. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Roots Too establishes a broader white social and political consensus arising in response to the political language of the Civil Rights movement.

Associate Professor of American Studies and History Matthew Frye Jacobson

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